For her party, Emilia wanted to take her cousins and friends swimming. Nicole was kind enough to take Mira and Cecily so I could take everyone else to the pool without having to worry about them. She took them to the splash pad and they stayed for almost three hours. Emilia, Cari, Jane, Meg, and Alexia all had a blast at the Provo Rec Center. We all arrived back at the house at the same time and we had cake and cupcakes and soda (Emilia's request). Megan made the beautiful cake. It was supposed to be a mermaid cake without a mermaid on it and I think it turned out perfect.
Gymnastics was just as fun this week as last week, though this time I seemed to pull/stretch a ligament in front of my hip. It hurt so bad that night that I had to drive home using the wrong foot. But it was perfectly fine by Thursday, so the injury was less drastic even than last weeks'. I'm hoping I injure myself less and less instead of more and more so I can keep going. It really is one of the funnest things I've done as an adult. This week, I did some more front handsprings, just to make sure I still had it down, then learned what they call a front "bounder." The difference is the handspring is stepped into (so you technically jump off one foot onto your hands), and the bounder is jumping off two feet onto your hands. For some reason it was much scarier to do the bounder than the handspring, but I conquered my fear and did it, which is super exhilarating.
Pictures from my lunch with Megan, my mom, and Kris and Brenda Dahlgren at my mom's house:
When we arrived (late) at the MTC tour, with Cecily shoeless (she got in the car that morning without shoes on, of course), Grandma and Grandpa Watts and the Nelsons and Steve were all waiting for us, but since we had driven down from my parents' house (traffic was bad, which is mostly why we were late), it had been a long drive and Emilia had to go to the bathroom REALLY bad. So I ran her into the nearby church building to use the facilities. Since everyone was waiting outside in the 90 degree weather, I was in a hurry, but I decided to use the restroom, too, since I was there. Setting my phone down on the toilet paper dispenser, and telling myself that "I cannot leave that there," I hurried out, promptly forgot my own good advice, and left my phone there. It wasn't until we were at dinner at IHOP later that I remembered where I had left it. Here is a lovely selfie of the couple who found it and returned it to me through contacting my mom:
Friday was the day I helped cut fruit for two hours, and since we still had to go to the library and my kids were bored, hungry, and cranky, I decided to treat them to a sno-cone before heading to the library. We got there and ordered before I realized they only took cash and I only had $1 in my purse. So we had to load up, go to the new Zion's Bank that (finally!) opened here in Springville, to get $20. Back at the stand, the girls re-ordered and enjoyed their grape, grape, and pokemon flavored sno-cones, and then we drove across the street to the library. When we got there, Cecily insisted on opening the large, heavy door herself and ended up pulling it over her exposed toes (she was wearing flip-flops--hey, at least there were shoes this time!), scraping her toe bad enough to make it bleed. I literally had an armload of books, so I shimmied into the door, held it open with my butt while she limped, wailing, inside, where she stopped to show me her poor foot, which I could not see because of said armload of books. Trying to hurry and comfort her, I let go of the door to set down the books on a nearby bench, not realizing that she had decided to use the inside of the doorframe to hold herself up one-footed. So now the large, heavy door closed on her fingers and there was even more weeping and wailing and so forth. After running her fingers under the cold water from the fountain for a minute, I could tell that this was not going to be enough comfort for two major injuries, so while I hauled Cecily out to the car, I commissioned Emilia to put the books in the return. When she didn't come out and didn't come out, I finally went in to find her, wondering if she didn't realize we had left and she was looking for books. No. I had dropped my phone with the books and she was playing Pokemon Go. Of course. After making it home and turning on a TV show, getting two icepacks, a bandaid, and tylenol, Cecily stopped wailing and I listened to my book while making dinner so there was some incentive to do anything besides eat chocolate and lay on the couch.
Part of the cleaning out of the garage involved going through boxes of stuff. The first picture is my mom's pin collection which was (not actually in the garage and which was) divided among all the children and grandchildren. The second picture is the cassette tape for my favorite book on tape from my childhood (Fox and the Hound was a close second). She didn't have the book, but I was excited to find the tape. When the new Wonder Woman movie came out, I got all nostalgic about this book and wanted to show it to my kids. But a book with the tape on Amazon was $60+ dollars! I found a copy of just the book on eBay for less than $15, though, so having the tape will save me $45. Hooray!
Gorgeous sunset on the way home Thursday night.
Another thing we found in the garage was the game Mastermind. I LOVED playing this as a child, so I super excited that my mom let me take this home. We played five rounds tonight at Grandma and Grandpa's after dinner.
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